Ambient Sounds: Owl and Loon

Following in Eva's footsteps, here are a couple more ambient sounds.

You will of course have to rename them if you decide to replace one of the existing sounds.

Don't forget to save a copy of the original files that you may be replacing (in case you want to go back at some point).

Files go in:

C:\Program Files\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\Sounds\Ambience Sfx

Personally there are too many larks, I replaced two of the larks with the Owl and the Loon. I replaced the Crickets with Eva's Thunder.

A good effort Pounder, but these stock clips are only 00:00'01 long, and the standard ones are all over 00'03 - they sort of sound incongruent with the rest of the game.

I haven't checked Eva's work yet, so I don't know what was done there…

If it were me, I'd find clips between 00'04 and 00'08 long

I didn't think that there was a time requirement, the oriole and the eagle are only 2 seconds, long. If an the cry of a loon or the hoot of an owl is only lasts a second and the sound is complete, I don't understand the issue.

Actually there would be an added benefit of speeding up the game as the file size is smaller. Maybe Rhye could use these sounds.

Please excuse my ignorance, but, what is a loon? I like the owl and I don't think they are too short at all, after all there isn't that much difference between 1 second and 3 seconds as long as it is a quality second and it is.

A duck sized bird, swims like a duck, pointed beak, I think it eats small fish.

Loons are very cool. It's the state bird, here in Minnesota (USA), as well as the provincal bird of Ontario (Canada), and the national bird of Canada. I believe northern Europe is the only other place that has them, but they call it something else.

They aren't actually ducks or related to genetically, but otherwise are very similar. Their physical appearance is beautiful (as the previous post shows), their water skimming is classic (they skim the top of the water before taking off), and their mating call is...like a yodel - almost ghostly.

Here's a link to wikipedia's take on them

This one is going straight into my core game, love the loon sound! Best addition in these forums yet!

[edit: ...in fact, this one's going in my scenarios!]

sourboy said:

I believe northern Europe is the only other place that has them, but they call it something else.

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I think the loon is called dopping in Sweden...

Where is the link for Eva's sounds?

Sword_Of_Geddon said:

Where is the link for Eva's sounds?

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Here you go:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=105836